Pale ink two ancient (22 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 2nd EDITION. Second Edition. Published by Swallow Press, 1972. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. No dust jacket.

Hardback. Condizione: Good.

Hardback. Condizione: Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Dust jacket has moderate wear and 2 inch tear to bottom right corner. Pages of text are clean, lightly age toned and free of markings. Binding is tight and secure. ***Shipped within 24 hours from the beautiful Baltimore inner harbor area. First class service; accurate descriptions. Most items packed in boxes, not envelopes.***.…

Hardcover. Condizione: VG-. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is a bit worn about the edges and somewhat scuffed, but without any serious tears. previous owner's name on title page. a few marks to jacket flap copy, no marks to the text of the book itself. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Red cloth with gilt titles. Bright and strong copy with no markings. A little bumped along the bottom of the spine. Dust jacket (in mylar sleeve) is very slightly soiled along the top front and has a 1/2" tear at the bottom of the back.…

Condizione: good. A good reading copy. May contain markings or be a withdrawn library copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 175pp, illustrated. Price-clipped dust jacket in protective mylar. Owner bookplate inside cover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Revised. 175pp. Tight copy in mylar-protected dust jacket. Moderate age toning. Revised Second Edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 2nd Edition. Tight copy, several tears to dust jacket which is now in protective mylar. 175pp, illustrated.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Very good hardcover octavo in fine original tan dust jacket, inscribed in ink to FFE "To Matthew and Marion Stirling with all good wishes / Henriette Mertz / Peoria 18 January 1954." Matthew Stirling (1896-1975) was an American ethnologist and archaeologist and later an administrator of several related scientific institutions. He's best known for his discoveries relating to the Olmec civilization in southern Mexico in the 1940s, which according to the National Geographic "essentially rewrote Mesoamerican history." His wife Marion Illig Stirling (1911-2001, later Marion Stirling Pugh, having married John Ramsey Pugh following her first husband's death in 1975), was also an American archaeologist. Her discovery of a date in the Long Count calendar, corresponding to 32 B.C., on a stella at Tres Zapotes, helped establish the antiquity of the Olmec civilization. The Stirlings' archives were donated by their grandchildren to the Smithsonian Institution in 2006. Mertz explains "Pale Ink" is "The story of two Chinese expeditions to America -- one in the fifth century A.D., and the other in the twenty-third century B.C. The fifth century story, which will be treated first, is that of Hwui Shan, Buddhist priest, who told the Court of China of going to a far country, to the east, called 'Fu-sang.' The second story, the 'Classic of Mountains and Seas,' is the record of a series of journeys, compiled by the great Yu, at the request of the Emperor Shun, supposedly in 2250 B.C., describing mountains and rivers across the 'Great Eastern Sea.' Fu-sang, this alleged-to-be 'geographical myth of Mexico-figment of Buddhist imagination,' is today assumed to be nothing more than legendary fantasy. (But) . . . within the past ten or fifteen years, archeologists have uncovered amazing pre-historic sites that would have been inconceivable to the scores of French and German scientists who examined the Buddhist monk's story" (and dismissed it as fantasy, 1761-1885.) Recent finds in Arizona and New Mexico confirm some of the most minute details contained within Hwui Shan's gripping account of Fu-sang. Had this present-day knowledge been available to those European scholars, history, within the past century, would have recorded the facts in a far different manner. . . ." 158 pp., reduced from $420. B&W maps (illustratore). Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 175pp. VG in mylar-protected, price-clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. A lovely, tight, clean hardcover in very good condition; light shelf wear to extremities, age toning to pastedowns. Inscribed by author to former owner, also includes letter written for former owner by author. Dust jacket in very good condition with mild rubbing, now in protective mylar cover. Photos available upon request.We are a brick-and-mortar store and sell our own inventory.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. First edition. Cloth-covered boards, in dustjacket. Signed by Mertz (no inscription) on the front free endpaper. Real cloth covers are ***heavily foxed***, with numerous spots of dye loss; the page edges and a little of the endpapers are also foxed. . Spine lean. Pastedowns browned over the glue-line. Dustjacket is complete but front panel and spine are stained , the spine is sunned, and the jacket is generally rather grubby.…

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 158p. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Corners barely bumped. Vertical stripes of mild discoloration on endpapers. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. The jacket has some light edgewear, including a closed tear at the bottom front corner measuring about 1 inch. Light flecks of staining and a mildly tanned spine; otherwise, jacket intact. Inscribed by Henriette Mertz on the front free endpaper with a date of 3 June 1955. A scarce study of two accounts of Chinese expeditions in America, both occurring more than a thousand years ago.…

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 174 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.43 inches. This item is printed on demand.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 174 pages. 10.00x7.50x0.40 inches. This item is printed on demand.

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. [12], 13-158; 6 full-page maps; cancel slip over imprint; fine copy in original terracotta cloth stamped in gilt, and in a near fine dust jacket with a 3" closed tear along the top of the front hinge. Signed by the author on the title page.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 158 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.39 inches. This item is printed on demand.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 174 pages. 9.69x7.44x0.43 inches. This item is printed on demand.